India

2012

New York, August 14, 2012--At least three Indian journalists
were attacked over the weekend during protests by Muslim groups calling for news
coverage of the deaths of Muslims in the ongoing ethnic tension in the state of
Assam, according to news reports.

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New York, August 14, 2012--Indian authorities should
immediately investigate a grenade attack that targeted a prominent local
journalist on Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. No one
was injured in the attack, which came in the wake of death threats made by
local insurgents against editors, according to news reports.

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New York, July 16, 2012--Authorities must immediately
investigate Sunday's attack on Tongam Rina, a journalist for a local Indian
daily, and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to
Protect Journalists said today. Rina was in critical condition today in a local
hospital, according to news reports.

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Last week, Tarun Sehrawat, a 22-year-old Indian photographer
for Tehelkamagazine, died from
cerebral malaria and its complications, according to several of his colleagues
and media
accounts. He had returned, ill, from a shooting assignment with Tehelka's reporter Tusha Mittal in May.
The team had been covering the ongoing Maoist revolt in Chhattisgarh in central
India and reported it in "Inside
Abujmarh The Mythic Citadel." Both Sehrawat and Mittal became very
ill, but Sehrawat succumbed. Mittal, we understand, is still recovering.

Dear Secretary Clinton: We are writing in advance of the third India-U.S. Strategic Dialogue coming up on June 13, which you will co-chair in Washington, D.C., with Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna. India is host to a vital and thriving news media, but CPJ has documented several violations against Indian journalists that are undermining the country's tradition of a free press.

The
New Delhi-based Tehelka magazine
published an open
letter by imprisoned freelance journalist Lingaram
Kodopi on Monday. Kodopi, one of the two journalists CPJ documented in prison in India on
December 1, 2011, has been held without charge since September 2011 as a
suspected associate of insurgent Maoists in Chhattisgarh. His supporters
believe he faces harassment for documenting police violence in the region.

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New York, May 25, 2012--Local authorities in India must drop the
criminal charges filed against video journalist Mukesh Rajak, an apparent
attempt to prevent him from reporting on local government expenditures, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

The high court in the western state
of Gujarat defended the media, rebuking a prosecutor for demanding state
regulation of newspaper content. The prosecution sought restrictions after the
Ahmedabad police commissioner filed sedition charges against a Times of India editor and reporter, and
a Gujarat Samachar photographer.

CPJ's María Salazar-Ferro names the 12 countries where journalists are murdered regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Where are leaders failing to uphold the law? Where are conditions getting better? And where is free expression in danger? (4:46)